Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

In mid-March 1986, Tan Zhenhua left Tokyo and returned to China.

Unlike the fanfare of the previous few months, this time he will quietly discuss several major projects with the newly established China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), which was formed by the merger of the original Ministry of Machinery and Electronics. , And the China Academy of Sciences started cooperation.

It can be seen from the name of the new Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that China Xia has fully realized the importance of informatization construction in the future international competition and has made corresponding adjustments.

At the same time, under his arrangement, Yu Youcheng, the actual administrative person in charge of the "Matrix" laboratory, also flew to the capital - this time, he will have the opportunity to realize some of his ideals.

You should remember the story of our Dr. Yu who failed to start his own business, right? Selling computers in China is one of his dreams. Of course, due to various objective conditions, he failed last time, but this time is different. He is no longer alone all over the world to promote his ideas and The product, behind him, stands the most dazzling new star in the IT industry-Matrix Lab!

Yu Youcheng has two tasks. One of course is to bring China's current four leading PC companies, namely Lenovo, Inspur, Founder, and Stone, which are called the "Four King Kong" by the industry, into their own-led "Midoor" alliance;

Of course, it now appears that there is no difficulty in completing this task. After all, Intel and AMD have joined the alliance, and the X86 architecture is likely to not include the "4" CPU, while the "Windows" operating system is Quiet in the market, its production company Microsoft is also being tossed and desperate by a series of intellectual property lawsuits by the "iDoorsoft" company.

The second is to realize Tan Zhenhua’s idea-to build a modern electronic product foundry factory in Huaxia Shenchuan, make full use of Huaxia’s advantages in human resources, and replace each brand with large-scale socialized production in the past. Production methods.

The benefits of this approach are obvious. Concentrating the procurement of large quantities of parts and components can obviously reduce procurement costs; large-scale assembly line production can increase the unit output of each worker; production companies focus on the improvement of efficiency and technological level, brand companies Then you can focus on the technology research and development and brand promotion of new products-just as the emergence of "Huaxin Microelectronics" has changed the competitive landscape of the chip industry, all the senior management personnel of the "Matrix" laboratory, including core partners, are concerned about Tan Zhenhua This decision voted in favor, believing that the layout of this strategy will also change the competitive landscape of the consumer electronics industry.

It's just that everyone is not satisfied with the name "Foxconn" given by Tan Zhenhua, the company that is in the plan. I don't know what the problem is that the second young master made the mistake and gave such an inexplicable name...

Let's put Tan Er's evil taste aside for the time being, and take a look at the highlight of his trip to the capital—two things too.

The first thing is to advance the implementation of the plan he and Masaichi Saha have reached.

To this end, Tan Zhenhua, Toshiba’s representative, Kumagaigawa, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology conducted a long-term tripartite negotiation to finally fully implement the matter. Tan Zhenhua will invest 20 million US dollars in the China's old machine tool manufacturing plant founded in 1948— -Ningdu No. 1 Machine Tool Plant restructured and established "Ningdu Precision Machine Tool Co., Ltd.", following the Xihangfa model and introducing Tan Zhenhua as its largest shareholding shareholder, and at the same time introducing part of Toshiba's equipment and production processes that comply with the "Batumi" export regulations , To upgrade the old factory, and strive to become China's leading CNC machine tool manufacturer.

At the same time, "Ningdu Precision Machine Tool Co., Ltd." will also invest 50% with Toshiba to establish a "Toshiba (Ningdu) Machine Tool Co., Ltd., which will introduce a Toshiba three-axis CNC machine tool production line. In addition to introducing technology, it will also use part of the Japanese The original imported parts produce various types of CNC machine tools under the "Toshiba" brand and supply them to the China market.

In the final tripartite agreement, it is clearly stipulated that all Toshiba (Ningdu) Machine Tool Co., Ltd. products supplied to the China market will comply with the "Batumi" export regulations, and solemnly declare that "Batumi can conduct an annual report on this company. An audit to check whether there are violations.” However, whether this clause will be seriously implemented will only be clear to the three parties. Moreover, Tan Zhenhua and the First Ministry of Machine Tool There is no need to worry about things at all, after all, we have a glorious tradition in handling inspections by the leaders of Huaxia Enterprise...cough cough cough cough.

This second thing is quite different from all the previous things, because on the surface, this is a major investment by the Huaxia government toward more modernization and efficiency: Huaxia announced that it will be organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and a subordinate of the State Council With the cooperation of major ministries and commissions, the office automation transformation will be implemented in phases and batches. This transformation will mainly focus on the fact that major ministries and commissions and their subordinate provincial and municipal local administrative agencies, directly affiliated key enterprises, institutions and research institutes improve their office efficiency. The requirements are implemented, and the goal is to initially establish a fully electronic and information-based efficient office environment.

So much, the actual content is very simple, that is, Huaxia decided to conduct a joint procurement bidding for office automation equipment. The products it plans to purchase include office microcomputers, printers, copiers, scanners and other equipment, and the equipment targets are Major ministries and commissions, local management agencies, and key directly affiliated enterprises.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused the serious attention of all major companies that have related products sold in China, because according to the published procurement list, the total amount will exceed 1.5 billion yuan, which is calculated at the current exchange rate. A huge government procurement order of more than 400 million U.S. dollars!

This is probably the largest centralized government procurement order in China’s history. Although it is not clear in this public bidding document that China will complete the purchase in several years, all manufacturers of personal computers and office automation equipment One thing is very clear: whether or not to be included in the list of suppliers for China's government procurement will to a large extent become a key factor affecting the smooth development of the company's trade work in China for a long time in the future!

Because at this time in China, most of the units that have the ability to carry out office automation construction are nothing more than the government agencies, institutions, and large and medium-sized enterprises from various countries mentioned in the bidding document.

There is no doubt that being shortlisted for this purchase means that the door to the China market has been completely opened, and a period of golden growth will usher in a period of brilliant growth. Everyone knows that based on the user’s habits, as long as this time For the units that have purchased the products of this company, the probability of using products of the same brand in the next purchase will be greatly increased!

For those office automation equipment that needs to consume a lot of consumables in the process of use, it pays special attention to this finalist. For these companies, selling products and selling machines also means that this will be a long time in the future. Stable sales of consumables over a period of time, and this is actually the most profitable part of these businesses.

Suddenly, the situation in China's capital city changed. The top personal computer manufacturers and office automation equipment manufacturers from all over the world came in one after another, almost breaking the threshold of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

"This net goes down, there are so many fish!" Tan Zhenhua sighed.

"Boy, the one you most want to catch, has you caught the bait?" Vice Minister Shen Zongyi asked with a smile.